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Your laundry is shedding more than just lint. Washing machine wastewater is one of the top sources of microplastics, with a single unit in a four-person household producing up to 500 grams a year as ...

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The average American consumes roughly one credit card’s worth of plastic each week. While this sounds disgusting, there’s a simple solution: Washington state ...

Your washing machine is the workhorse of your home, tirelessly working to keep your family’s clothes fresh and clean. But what about cleaning the cleaner? Soap scum, mineral deposits from hard water, ...

Even if you have your laundry routine down to a science, you might not even know that your washing machine has a lint trap—much less that it requires regular cleaning. But, much like your dryer’s lint ...